[Wine] Question on .NET, Mono and Visual C++ and WINE

Peter L Jones gmane at drealm.info
Thu Aug 27 13:50:16 CDT 2009



Irrlicht wrote:
> Moving away from the binaries is not an option, it's impossible. 
> 
> The team is using Visual Studio 2008 C++ Express. The AppDB pretty much says garbage to all Visual Studios available AFAIK. :)
> 
> What I thought about is the following constellation:
> 
> - Develop with VirtualBox Windows and VS C++ Express 2008 but using Mono to get Linux runnable binaries (forgive me if this is non-sense, this is what I understood Mono is for)
> - Run the "windows binaries" under WINE
> - Run the Mono build of our project under Linux
> 
> They should be able to communicate, correct? If so, the only problem would be the compatibility of Mono if I get you right.
> 

Mono is an open source implementation of .Net.  You don't (or shouldn't) need
to "compile for Mono".  If you're only using .Net, Mono should run your
application.  If you're using non-Managed binaries, Mono is not the answer - it
doesn't handle Windows binaries.

-- Peter




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